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<h2>Level of Calculus Attained for Students Taking Advanced Micro&ndash;economics </h2>

<h3>Description</h3>


<p>a cross-section from 1983 to 1986
</p>
<p><EM>number of observations</EM> :  609
</p>
<p><EM>observation</EM> :  individuals
</p>
<p><EM>country</EM> :  United States
</p>


<h3>Usage</h3>

<pre>data(Mathlevel)</pre>


<h3>Format</h3>

<p>A dataframe containing :
</p>

<dl>
<dt>mathlevel</dt><dd><p>highest level of math attained , an ordered factor with levels 170, 171a, 172, 171b, 172b, 221a, 221b</p>
</dd>
<dt>sat</dt><dd><p>sat Math score</p>
</dd>
<dt>language</dt><dd><p>foreign language proficiency ?</p>
</dd>
<dt>sex</dt><dd><p>male, female</p>
</dd>
<dt>major</dt><dd><p>one of  other, eco, oss (other social sciences), ns (natural sciences), hum (humanities)</p>
</dd>
<dt>mathcourse</dt><dd><p>number of courses in advanced math (0 to 3)</p>
</dd>
<dt>physiccourse</dt><dd><p>number of courses in physics (0 to 2)</p>
</dd>
<dt>chemistcourse</dt><dd><p>number of courses in chemistry (0 to 2)</p>
</dd>
</dl>



<h3>Source</h3>


<p>Butler, J.S.,  T. Aldrich   Finegan and  John J.  Siegfried (1998) &ldquo;Does more calculus improve student learning in intermediate micro and macroeconomic theory ?&rdquo;, <EM>Journal of Applied Econometrics</EM>, <B>13(2)</B>, april, 185&ndash;202.
</p>


<h3>References</h3>


<p>Journal of Applied Econometrics data archive : <a href="http://jae.wiley.com/jae/">http://jae.wiley.com/jae/</a>.
</p>


<h3>See Also</h3>

<p><code>Index.Source</code>, <code>Index.Economics</code>, <code>Index.Econometrics</code>, <code>Index.Observations</code></p>


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